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IBM Instana Self-Hosted brings the full power of Instana with real-time observability platform into your own controlled environment. Whether on-premises, in a sovereign cloud, or inside air-gapped infrastructure, Instana delivers unmatched visibility across applications, containers, microservices, and infrastructure.
With 1-second granularity, 100% distributed tracing (no sampling), and automatic discovery of application components, Instana ensures that no performance issue goes undetected. Intuitive dashboards, native OpenTelemetry support, and zero-code instrumentation accelerate time-to-value, making it easy for DevOps, SRE, and ITOps teams to adopt and scale observability.
Available in both single-node and multi-node deployment templates, Instana Self-Hosted is optimized for environments where SaaS cannot be used, such as regulated industries, national security, and hybrid cloud use cases. Deployments take less than 15 minutes and run without data ingestion limits, giving you full control of your observability stack.
Take a guided tour of Instana in our sandbox here: https://ibm.biz/play_with_instana
Highlights
- Deploy in under 15 minutes with automated single-node or multi-node templates on AWS. Run where SaaS can not - ideal for regulated industries, data sovereignty, and hybrid cloud needs.
- Built-in automation and AI help you deploy and start collecting insights across your full stack within minutes. Automated root cause analysis and recommendations provide faster issue resolution.
- Seamlessly integrate your IT landscape with AWS services and 300+ integrations with no visibility gaps across your cloud, micro-services and containerized environments.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
|---|---|---|
10 Standard Managed Virtual Server (MVS) | All-in-one Observability (Infrastructure, Tracing, EUM, Synthetics) | $14,400.00 |
10 Essentials Managed Virtual Server (MVS) | Basic Observability (Infrastructure Monitoring only) | $3,852.00 |
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Our long-term subscription agreements require a one time up-front payment with no ongoing charges and cover all subscription fees for the selected number of hosts. The number of selected hosts needs to match the number of monitored hosts. For upgrades please contact your Instana account rep. Downgrades are not supported. All fees are non-cancelable and non-refundable, and Client shall not be entitled to a refund for any amounts already paid.
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If you prefer to manually configure Instana Self-Hosted Standard Edition, please refer to the steps described at the following links found at Instana's documentation:
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Customer reviews
Sqaaf B.
Fast, Automated Monitoring and Observability with IBM Instana
Reviewed on Feb 15, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
IBM Instana is a amazing tool for monitoring and observability, and stands out for its speed and automation and its realtime service topology map is really useful which visually shows how our micro-services connect, allowing faster root cause analysis.
What do you dislike about the product?
When it comes to highly tailored monitoring, you often need manual configs and workarounds.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Now a days, modern apps are not that simple, they have micro services, containers and cloud platforms connectivity, so IBM Instana provides us with advance monitoring. It almost instantly detects all our service containers and dependencies in real time.
Eldon V.
Transforms IT Monitoring with Real-Time Insights
Reviewed on Feb 03, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I really value IBM Instana's dynamic graph and asset visualization. It makes it exceptionally easy for any project manager, regardless of technical depth, to quickly understand specifics of low performance or security challenges. The intuitive navigation system is incredibly powerful for performing high-speed log and trace searches that link IT traces directly to a business context, ensuring that our development cycle remains fast and our lead times stay competitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
If there are areas that need more attention, it would be transaction transparency in a high customer integration. While it actually has standard stacks, transaction handling for third-party components can sometimes be opaque, making cross-connection mapping and multiple environments difficult. I also believe there is significant room for improvement in AI-driven automated remediation. While the recently announced agent tech AI features are promising and out of the box, the ability to execute the next best action on automated scripts without human intervention is still maturing and often requires a lot of manual fine-tuning to avoid false positives.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use IBM Instana as a centralized observability engine to address data challenges and lack of transparency, reducing downtime and focusing on innovation. It provides real-time monitoring and automated discovery, cutting troubleshooting time significantly and enhancing strategic development.
Ahmad H.
Unified Monitoring with Real-Time Precision
Reviewed on Feb 02, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I really appreciate IBM Instana's dynamic graph and automatic discovery capabilities. These features eliminate the exhaustive manual configuration and constant tagging required by other enterprise tools, as Instana maps out the dependencies on its own. The one-second granularity is a game-changer as it allows us to pinpoint every single cell to a service and endpoint without needing custom instruction code. This feature has completely transformed how we handle distributed tracing across all microservices. I also love how easy the initial setup was for us, and I'd rate it a nine out of 10 for recommendation.
What do you dislike about the product?
While automated features are world-class, the performance does fall a bit short when it comes to long-term historical data retention and deep trend analysis. It is built for now, but looking back over several months of data to find very subtle patterns can be restrictive. I also feel like the native dashboard could be more flexible. While the APIs for reporting are solid, the out-of-the-box visualization options sometimes feel a bit rigid when you are trying to build a single pane of glass for non-technical stakeholders.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM Instana solved our monitoring data fragmentation issue. It unified our monitoring, drastically reducing MTTR by automatically correlating events across layers, eliminating manual labor to understand database latency impacts on user journeys.
Lina G.
Indispensable for Financial Service Monitoring, Needs Improved Documentation
Reviewed on Feb 01, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
In my opinion, the most valuable capacity of IBM Instana is the sheer level of granular detail provided for each component in the flow. I find the automated dependency mapping indispensable. I also appreciate that the initial setup was not a burden for us; it was quite good and easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find the configuration and documentation process could use some improvement. Sometimes when we try to set up monitoring for newer or highly specific technology, the online documentation or step-by-step procedures aren't fully updated with the latest agent version. This leads to a bit of trial and error that could be avoided with a more synchronized release cycle. Also, while the UI is intuitive, some of the advanced filter options are tucked away in menus that aren't immediately obvious for a new user, creating a slight learning curve for the unmounted analytic side of the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I find IBM Instana solves the problem of ambiguity in distributed failures. It provides instant clarity on failure points, reducing time spent piecing log files together and increasing operational efficiency.
Tron U.
Revolutionized Our Monitoring with Incredible Insights
Reviewed on Jan 31, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like IBM Instana because it acts as a 24/7 AI-driven observer, watching every single call and request from the front end browser performance down to SQL queries, which is pretty comprehensive. I appreciate how Instana's AI helps reduce alert noise by grouping related alerts into one incident, preventing my phone from blowing up with useless pings. The root cause correlation feature is helpful because it shows not just the errors but also the causal chain, providing insights such as identifying slow database queries, which makes my work less stressful. I also found the out-of-the-box experience really aligns with our team's desire for simplicity and immediate value. The setup felt quite smooth and didn't involve too many technical hurdles, which I love.
What do you dislike about the product?
I mean, there was a better way to manage invalid alarms. Sometimes you have a known issue that you are working on, and you want to suppress that specific alert without silencing the whole service. Right now, setting those exclusions is a manual one-by-one process. That leaves a bit behind the rest of the tool automation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM Instana is our 24/7 AI-driven observer for system health, watching every call and request. It groups related alerts into one incident, stopping 50 useless pings. It shows causal chains, pinpointing slow services to specific database queries and saves me from event storm chaos.